Year: 2008 School: TaiK

A book design course assignment was to create a outlook of book series for a definite target group about a subject close to you. I designed a series of covers for Finnish translations of classic Sci-fi novels targeted to teenagers.

Year: 2008 School: TaiK

Posters done during information design workshop in TaiK

A Battle In The Margins: The assignment was to study the 2008 U.S. presidental elections, and my approach was to find out what happened to the 1% of all popular votes that were casted to other than the two main candidates. Resulting an map of the division of the non-major party popular votes per state, and a presentation of the speculative electoral college of the non-major party candidates. But how did it go?. Well if both Obama and McCain would have been disqualified, Ralph Nader would be the presidet of the United States!

My Bad: The size of the pie chart represents the popular votes share of the states total votes. However, the percentage is linked to the diameter of the pie chart, not the area: increment of one percent doubles the diameter of the pie chart, not the area, as it should. So the visualisation is actually biased: the differences between 1% and 3% seem larger, than they actually are. A lesson learned.

The Most Fantabulous Magic Tricks: Another assignment was to design a 50×70 poster illustrating some action that is familiar to you, so I choose a topic near to my heart: cheap tricks.